Palin on climate change: ‘Whaddya mean we caused it?”
ST. PAUL, Minn. — If you’re an environmental advocate, you might be happy to know that the vice president doesn’t get the final word.
In picking Sarah Palin for his running mate, John McCain didn’t seem to mind that he and Alaska’s governor take starkly different approaches to key environmental matters.
Then again, in his drive to mollify conservatives, perhaps McCain sought out someone who rejects the conclusions of most of the world’s scientists.
Unlike McCain, Palin supports drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – one of those litmus issues as far as green politics.
Even more noteworthy, Palin and McCain depart company on climate change.
In a recent interview with the conservative website Newsmax, Palin said of global warming: “I’m not one … who would attribute it to being man-made.”
That puts her on the opposite side of the fence from McCain and politicians who accepted the conclusions of more than 2,000 independent scientists from around the world who, after the most exhaustive cooperative study ever, last year attributed global warming to humans.
The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also asserted that time is running out as far as taking the steps needed to prevent potentially catastrophic effects from our fast-rising oceans.
McCain has fully embraced that thinking and sponsored legislation in the Senate aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system. Barack Obama takes a similar approach.
McCain pushed for inclusion of language in the GOP 2008 Platform that says: “The same human activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.”
Maybe he’ll say to Palin in Minnesota: “We gotta talk.”
Blame it on the caveman who lit the first campfire, it was all downhill after that.
Well, I guess if you only met the woman once before asking her to be next in line to the presidency, this happens. Besides, she lives in Alaska. They don’t discuss global warming at PTA meetings in Alaska.
God creates all things. If fire and brimstone bequeths us, so be it. This is the gospel according to John.
What do 2,000 independent scientists know anyway?
Palin went to a community college and worked hard…And I’m not just talking volleyball.
It’s kinda scary that he picked a creationist!
Hey Bill - thanks for showing and playing your part of the media bias in saying that the majority of the world’s scientists agree that global warming is manmade - there are certainly more than 4000 scientists in the world. The majority of those scientists who actually study weather and climate don’t agree with manmade global warming. They present evidence of the earth’s cyclic heating and cooling. But then again - they are real scientists - not political scientists like those at the UN or media people who play scientist in the media.
And besides - if manmade global warming is to be the death of us all - then why do the global warming alarmist even admit that the earth will cool for the next 10 years before once again heating up? Could be that they actually read the scientific data showing the sun’s solar flare activity impact - which ended on the sun 10 years ago - has finally reached its conclusion here on earth INCONVENIENTLY disrupting their unsubstantiated - wrong headed invictives and slowed down their progress in taxing the hell out of all of us driving us back to caves.
Then again - perhaps they went back to read some statements made by other “scientists” in the 70’s and 80’s that said by now we would be frozen blocks of ice and the world as we know would be ended. Why - some of the idiots talking about global warming were some of the idiots talking about global cooling. Their mantra hasn’t changed just the side of the thermostat they are tyring to use to end our civilization.
Maybe after November 4 - someone can show Obama to his office in the Senate and give him his remedial training on how to function as a US Senator. Come to think of it - it would be better for all of us if he continued to play like he is a US Senator instead of doing any more stupid things.
Palin will make a great VP in 2009!
Wow Jason, you might want to consider getting your information from somewhere other than scribblings on the wall of your local pub.
Here’s what credible news sources say:
“The majority of climate scientists agree that global warming is primarily caused by human activities such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation.[20][21][22] The conclusion that global warming is mainly caused by human activity and will continue if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced has been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences,[23] the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[24] and the Joint Science Academies of the major industrialized and developing nations[25] explicitly use the word “consensus” when referring to this conclusion.”
Yes, it’s wikipedia, but all you have to do is look at the original citations.
McCain’s veep choice, once again, proves he’s STILL too ignorant to be President!
http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/01/death-of-the-first-amendment-at-saint-louis-university/
Ooops, pulled a twisted!
http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/08/04/15-reasons-john-mccain-is-too-ignorant-to-be-president/
Besides the questionable scribblings you provided - those organizations have long history of being as much “political scientists” as real scientists so - no go. No one has proven manmade global warming exists. They have proven they are willing to be as political - as nonsensical - as fear mongering as they have to be to try to scare people into believing their mush.
They have been somewhat successful in that most pepole believe global warming is happening - they are just as willing to believe it is the earth’s natural cycle as they are that it is manmade. They are also unwilling to pay for “fixing” something they aren’t really sure they caused.
Hogan - I tried to go to a website that listed all the reasons that Obama was unqualified to be president but when I got to the home page - they said there wasn’t enough bandwidth on Al Gore’s internet to provide all the reasons Obama is unqualified and unfit to be President.
STM — re: Jason B. Remember how Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb predicted worldwide starvation beginning in the 70’s & 80’s? His theory was endorsed by 3 out of 4 scientists… Guess what — it didn’t happen.
btw, high school kids are not permitted to use Wikipedia as source material.
Hogan — isn’t there another way to advertise for gullible legal clients?
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BobZ - You’ve got Hogan all wrong. He’s not trolling for legal clients, he’s trolling for dates … by pretending to be a clever, left-wing attorney. We know at least the left-wing part is true, he doesn’t do too well on the clever, and who knows if he’s really an attorney. For all I know, he went to law school with Lionel Hutz.
I think picking Palin was some kind of a prank.
He’ll surely come out with his real choice in a couple of days.
Bill -
All you have to do is go to the National Weather Service Web site yourself and click on the climate data for St. Louis (or anywhere, for that matter). Some years have been very warm, others cold, others wet, others dry. In the 70s during various cold snaps, the big news was the coming of the next Ice Age. Now, Global Warming. To say that most of the world’s scientists agree on man-made global warming is false. Last winter, I got tired of having to put blocks in my trunk for traction for the many snow and ice storms we had. I’m not convinced that our world has warmed that drastically from the 70s, and what will the consensus be if we enter in a cooling period? Kudos to Palin. Most Americans are ready to drill, and if it’s in ANWR, the place is a desert. A line of pipes isn’t going to affect too much, except maybe how the meese screw each other. By the way, moose are so stupid, they can’t even get out of the way of a train coming right at them. Palin eats moose burgers. Cheers!
Tim Hogan -
I went to Saint Louis University, and I can guarantee you that article is the opinion of one editor, not the University, and certainly not the Catholic church. I tell you what, take yourself down to Father Kavanaugh SJ’s office and ask him if abortion, namely Obama’s position on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, is ethical. And, you may want to watch this video, which will open your eyes a little. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
“Jason, you might want to consider getting your information from somewhere other than scribblings on the wall of your local pub.”
Or, the church bulletin.
Oh dear! How confusing. They should talk ASAP to get their stories straight.
I can’t wait for her to share more of her views with us.
Fact: There is not any evidence of any kind that shows there is manmade global warming. None. Zilch. When grant’s go away to study gl9bal warming, so will man made global warming.
Remember the nutty professor from the University of missouri who had a blog site, here. I decimated him by just asking questions. The blog no longer exists.
Palin was right!!
For any of you “experts” tell me of one proof that we have man make global warming. You can’t; and you know it. Just try it!
Correct, it is not 100% proven that man has created global warming. (at this point, maybe 75% or so…)
But to say that there is NO SUCH THING as global warming ?? Dude, I’m pretty sure most scientists (and basically anyone else with an IQ above 80) in the world know how to read a friggin thermometer!
So, the world IS getting warmer…whether you “care to believe” it or not, guy. And if we can do something to slow or stop that warming -WHETHER YOU THINK WE “CAUSED” IT OR NOT - we should.
The effect to us and other developed nations is that we spend a portion of our vast wealth trying to reverse what is happening.
OR…we could sit back, do absolutely nothing, and what - cross our fingers that things work out OK????
Great plan.